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On Wed, 28 Aug 2024 11:16:56 -0700,  Alan says...  

> > Trump rally shooting fundraiser: Funds raised for Corey Comperatore family, Trump rally shooting victims over
> > $6 million.
> 
> That shows he cares about PR.

That's your hate and TDS(see below) and a faggot's opinion, and faggot opinions don't count for shit, shit-
eater. 

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Support For Butler PA Victims - President Trump AUTHORIZED - Gofundme

https://www.gofundme.com/f/president-trump-seeks-support-for-butler-pa-victims

Jul 13, 2024 - President Donald Trump has authorized this account as a place for donations to the supporters 
and families wounded or killed in Today - 's brutal and horrific assassination attempt. All donations will be 
directed to these proud Americans as they grieve and recover. May God bless and unite our nation.

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Gofundme For Corey Comperatore, Trump Rally Shooting Victims Raises ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gofundme-for-corey-comperatore-trump-rally-shooting-victims-raises-
over-3m/ar-BB1q0OMJ

A high-profile fundraiser for the victims in Saturday's assassination attempt on former President Donald 
Trump at a Pennsylvania political rally has raised over $4 million, with top donors ...

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Donald Trump SUPPORTS Gofundme Campaign With $1m Target For Victims Of ...

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-supports-gofundme-campaign-with-1m-target-for-victims-
of-rally-shooting/ar-BB1pWDqB

Donald Trump IS SUPPORTING a GoFundMe campaign with a target of $1million for the victims of the Pennsylvania 
rally shooting. Trump, 78, was shot in the ear as he addressed the crowd at Butler ...

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Trump LAUNCHES FUND-RAISER For Pennsylvania Rally Shooting Victims

https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/trump-campaign-launches-fundraiser-for-pennsylvania-rally-shooting-
victims/

Jul 14, 2024 - The Trump campaign launched a fundraiser for the victims caught in the crossfire of an 
attempted assassination on the ex-president's life.. The online call to action raised just short of $85,000 
...

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Gofundme Created For Daughter Of Man Killed At Trump Rally Shooting ...

https://www.masslive.com/news/2024/07/gofundme-created-for-daughter-of-man-killed-at-trump-rally-shooting-
cory-comperatore.html

Jul 15, 2024 - A fundraiser has been created to benefit the daughter of Corey Comperatore - the 50-year-old 
fire chief who was killed during the attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally in ...

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Trump AUTHORIZES GOFUNDME For PA Rally Shooting Victims

https://dailyvoice.com/pa/lower-paxton/trump-launches-gofundme-for-pa-rally-shooting-victims/

Jul 14, 2024 - A GoFundMe fundraising campaign page has been launched for the victims and their families 
following the fatal shooting at the Trump Rally in western Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13. Former 
President Donald Trump surrounded by security, with blood on his face, raising his fist in the air after he 
was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13 ...

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Authorized Gofundme For Trump Rally Assassination Attempt Victims ...

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/donald-trump-assassination-authorised-gofundme-33238753

Jul 14, 2024 - An "authorized" GoFundMe campaign for the Trump rally victims has raised more than $150,000 in 
the last eight hours.. The fundraising campaign was launched by the Trump campaign for the victims ...

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Gofundme For Victims At Trump Rally Raises Over $2M - WFLX

https://www.wflx.com/2024/07/14/gofundme-victims-trump-rally-raises-over-2m/

Jul 14, 2024 - A GoFundMe that former President Donald Trump reportedly authorized has raised over $2 million 
for the victims at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.. The fundraiser is organized by Meredith 
ORourke. According to the fundraiser's description, Trump "has authorized this account as a place for 
donations to the supporters and families wounded or killed in Today - 's brutal and horrific ...

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Congressional Task Force On Trump Assassination Attempt Promises ... - CNN

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/26/politics/task-force-trump-assassination-attempt-promises-thorough-
investigation/index.html

3 days ago - A view of the site of the July 13, Trump campaign rally on the grounds of the Butler Farm Show, 
which was visited by members of the House Committee on Homeland Security, led by Chairman Mark E ...

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"Trump Derangement Syndrome" Is a Real Mental Condition

All you need to know about "Trump Derangement Syndrome," or TDS.

"Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is a mental condition in which a person has been driven effectively insane 
due to their dislike of Donald Trump, to the point at which they will abandon all logic and reason."

Justin Raimondo, the editorial director of Antiwar.com, wrote a piece in the Los Angeles Times in 2016 that 
broke TDS down into three distinct phases or stages:

"In the first stage of the disease, victims lose all sense of proportion. The president-elect's every tweet 
provokes a firestorm, as if 140 characters were all it took to change the world."

"The mid-level stages of TDS have a profound effect on the victim's vocabulary: Sufferers speak a distinctive 
language consisting solely of hyperbole."

"As TDS progresses, the afflicted lose the ability to distinguish fantasy from reality."

The Point here is simple: TDS is, in the eyes of its adherents, the knee-jerk opposition from liberals to 
anything and everything Trump does. If Trump announced he was donating every dollar he's ever made, TDS 
sufferers would suggest he was up to something nefarious, according to the logic of TDS. There's nothing - 
not. one. thing. - that Trump could do or say that would be received positively by TDSers.

The history of Trump Derangement Syndrome actually goes back to the early 2000s - a time when the idea of 
Trump as president was a punch line for late-night comics and nothing more.

Wikipedia traces its roots to "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - a term first coined by the late conservative 
columnist Charles Krauthammer back in 2003. The condition, as Krauthammer defined it, was "the acute onset of 
paranoia in otherwise normal people in reaction to the policies, the presidency - nay - the very existence of 
George W. Bush."

Added Krauthammer:

"Some clinicians consider this delusion - that Americans can only get their news from one part of the 
political spectrum - the gravest of all. They report that no matter how many times sufferers in padded cells 
are presented with flash cards with the symbols ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, PBS, Time, Newsweek, New York 
Times, Washington Post, L.A. Times - they remain unresponsive, some in a terrifying near-catatonic torpor."

(If you don't realize the idea of TDS or BDS is - in no small part - meant in a tongue-in-cheek manner then, 
well, you may well have it.)

Trump allies believe that TDS is worse than ODS or BDS - by a lot. Wrote conservative pundit Bernie Goldberg 
on Real Clear Politics in early 2017:

"Before the election, the victims of TDS routinely compared Donald Trump to Hitler. Guess what. They're still 
doing it. Articles in respectable publications written by professors at elite universities are warning us to 
be on guard, that a Trump presidency could imperil democracy-as-we-know-it and may very well spell doom for 
American civilization.

"On election night, as it became obvious that their worst nightmare was about to come true, some libs 
fainted. Some vomited. Many more threatened to leave the country, but I'm pretty sure none actually did. As 
Donald Trump might say in a tweet: so sad!"

The truth is that TDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those who oppose him and 
his policies as nothing more than the blind hatred of those who preach tolerance and free speech. Viewed more 
broadly, the rise of presidential derangement syndromes is a function of increased polarization - not to 
mention our national self-sorting - at work in the country today.

We no longer live around, work around or pal around with people who think any differently than us. We watch 
cable news that affirms what we already think. We read ideological "news" sites that tell us how good our 
side is and how bad the other one is. And on and on and on.

Is it any wonder then that we are increasingly willing to lump those who disagree with us into the 
"deranged" category? To say that those who don't share our views are mentally deficient in some way?

What does it say about a President - and about a country - when the standard response to those with whom you 
disagree is that they must be crazy? Nothing good, for sure. 

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Many clinicians, political commentators, and members of the public have speculated upon the mental health of 
President Donald Trump. Indeed, over 70,000 people self-identifying as "mental health professionals" have 
signed a petition declaring that "Trump is mentally ill and must be removed." In sociological terms, the 
"medical gaze" has been hitherto focused on President Trump, and to a lesser extent his ardent supporters.

However, in recent months, many have been questioning the direction of this "medical gaze." In fact, more and 
more people are suggesting that this "medical gaze" should be reversed and refocused on President Trump's 
most embittered and partisan opponents. Some have even suggested that these opponents are experiencing a 
specific mental condition-a condition which has been labelled "Trump Derangement Syndrome" (TDS).
What does DSM-5 say about "Trump Derangement Syndrome"?

Mental illnesses are officially classified in a dense and dry book published by the American Psychiatric 
Association (APA) known as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). 
This book contains 947 pages and lists hundreds of mental disorders; TDS is nowhere to be seen. Similarly, a 
review of scholarly databases such as MEDLINE and Google Scholar reveal no academic papers on this alleged 
syndrome. Officially at least, TDS is not a real, diagnosable, or treatable mental disorder.

That said, medical anthropologists and critical sociologists have convincingly argued that DSM-5 is a flawed 
document. Indeed, social scientists have long recognized that there are numerous "folk categories" of mental 
disorders that are considered real conditions by the general public, even though they are not recognized as 
such in the DSM. These include categories such as "burnout" or "nervous breakdown."

As such, lack of official recognition does not mean that TDS is not a real mental condition.


Lay Understandings of "Trump Derangement Syndrome"

There is no shared lay understanding of TDS, mainly because it is a folk category rather than a professional 
category. As such, there is currently much armchair speculation about the nature and existence of TDS, 
without consensus.

The name itself explicitly suggests a "syndrome," which the Oxford English Dictionary defines as "a 
characteristic combination of opinions, emotions, or behavior." Several commentators have run with this, 
putting forth suggestions about opinions, emotions and behaviors characterizing TDS.

Shared amongst these is a notion that the everyday activities of President Trump trigger some people into 
distorted opinions, extreme emotions and hysterical behaviors. Well-known writer Bernard Goldberg gives 
supposed behavioral examples of TDS among Trump's political opponents, including fainting, vomiting, students 
retreating to "safe spaces" and others demanding "therapy dogs." Political commentator Justin Raimondo 
focuses on opinions, language and cognition, writing in the LA Times that "sufferers speak a distinctive 
language consisting of hyperbole [leading to] a constant state of hysteria... the afflicted lose touch with 
reality."

Such forms of highly emotional reaction could be something akin to the fainting and screaming characterizing 
American Beatlemania in the 1960s. Unlike the Beatles, however, the extreme emotional reaction alleged to 
characterize TDS is not based on adoration and admiration, but on fear and loathing.

Contrariwise, many others ridicule the notion that TDS is anything but a malicious slur term used to 
discredit and delegitimize criticism of President Trump. For example, CNN's Chris Cillizza may speak for many 
when he stated: "The truth is that TDS is just the preferred nomenclature of Trump defenders who view those 
who oppose him and his policies as nothing more than blind hatred." Likewise, Adam Gopnik writes that "our 
problem is not TDS; our problem is Deranged Trump Self-Delusion."

In other words, there are polarized opinions about the nature, reality and existence of TDS.


Conclusion

The wider public may be unaware that psychiatrists and social scientists spend considerable time and energy 
behind closed doors pondering over the existence and reality of mental conditions. This has led the APA to 
revise the DSM five times since 1952, considerably expanding the list of official mental disorders with each 
revision. As far as I am aware, few psychiatrists are currently arguing that DSM-6 should contain TDS as a 
mental disorder.

That said, in its official definition of mental disorder, the DSM-5 states that "a mental disorder is a 
syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion 
regulation, or behavior... mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress in social, 
occupational, or other important activities."

Many have argued that some people have been seriously disturbed and distressed by the policies, speech, 
behavior, and tweets of President Trump, so much so that it has affected their cognitive, affective, and 
behavioral functioning. Such people may need mental health support. As such, further research is necessary to 
investigate the extreme reactions toward President Trump, in the same way that researchers investigate other 
extreme social phenomena, such as Beatlemania or the like. This will shed light on the reality of this 
emerging folk category that has been labelled by many as "Trump Derangement Syndrome."